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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance | 
enlarge | Author: Marcus Buckingham Publisher: Free Press Category: Book
List Price: $30.00 Buy New: $6.71 You Save: $23.29 (78%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 52 reviews Sales Rank: 1108
Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 270 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4 Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0743261674 Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1 EAN: 9780743261678 ASIN: 0743261674
Publication Date: March 6, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand New! May have ink mark on book edge and/or very light shelf wear
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Product Description Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business to government to education. Now that the movement is in full swing, Buckingham's new book answers the ultimate question: How can you actually apply your strengths for maximum success at work?Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work -- in fact, only 17 percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work aims to change that through a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss. You will learn: Why your strengths aren't "what you are good at" and your weaknesses aren't "what you are bad at." How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths. The simple steps you can take each week to push your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you and away from those that don't. How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like you're bragging and about your weaknesses without sounding like you're whining. The fifteen-minute weekly ritual that will keep you on your strengths path your entire career. With structured exercises that will become part of your regular workweek and proven tactics from people who have successfully applied the book's lessons, Go Put Your Strengths to Work will arm you with a radically different approach to your work life. As part of the book's program you'll take an online Strengths Engagement Track, a focused and powerful gauge that has proven to be the best way to measure the level of engagement of your strengths or your team's strengths. You can also download the first two segments of the renowned companion film series Trombone Player Wanted. Go Put Your Strengths to Work will open up exciting uncharted territory for you and your organization. Join the strengths movement and thrive.
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Good Stuff June 28, 2008 I like the condition of the book delivered to me, it was no hype just real good quality. Thanks for displaying integrity without grity,lol.
A MUST HAVE RESOURCE June 15, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Marcus Buckingham is brilliant! His research-profound! As a professional workplace trainer, I use this book and insist that my clients purchase copies for their management teams before I conduct their trainings. Yesterday's "Human Resources" is today's "Talent Management" and employment engagement! Another must-have is the previous book "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham.
The sequel game June 14, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nutshell review - This book is a "6 step guide" on how to apply your strengths in work and life. But actually it's a just spin-off to milk the concept written in "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by the same author. Bottom line message = build and work on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
RIP-OFF ARTIST June 13, 2008 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I felt so ripped off--I got the impression from Buckingham's careful but indirect wording to the reader that you would be able to take the lauded Strengthsfinder test after buying his book and getting the secret code---NOT SO. He very manipulatively avoids telling you that you will now need to buy yet ANOTHER book by ANOTHER author to get that guy's secret code for you to finally get the Strengthsfinder. Buckingham gives you access to some lame thing called the Strengths engagement track. And it gets worse, folks, after you buy the OTHER book to take Strengthsfinder test, you find out that if your spouse wants to take the test? Well, screw him, he has to go buy ANOTHER copy of the same book to get another secret code. These guys sure know how to milk you for all they can get. There are plenty of complaints from readers on the website about this crap--ok, charge a nominal fee for the spouse test--but go buy another copy of the same book for the same household??! I am even mad at Oprah for her endorsement of Buckingham without researching this grab for money more thoroughly and then all of them FULLY and OPENLY and FRANKLY let people know what the now hidden costs are so we know before we invest in the first book and get suckered into buying more and more and more. . . There is some good stuff in the book but I am so disgusted by the unethical set up to reap excessive profits that I am done with it. I'll go somewhere else.
Very Disappointing May 31, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was disappointed in this book. I have read a couple other of Marcus Buckingham's books and have also heard him speak. He is great. However, this book was boring, long and repetitive. And, because I "heard" the book vs. reading it, and it has a series of exercises to be completed as you read it (which one cannot do while driving), it made it even worse. Do not recommend the book and definitely recommend less the CD.
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